Petropavlovsk Province

Petropavlovsk Province was a region of the Russian Empire located on the Kamchatka peninsula of East Asia. The province was an agricultural region for years, and its major settlements were Petropavlovsk, Yevensk, Tilichiki, Ossora, and Kamenskoye. On 23 March 1838, the region had a population of 78,070 people, with 55.9% being Ukrainians, 13.6% Russians, 10.5% Poles, 4.4% Latvians, 3.6% Tatars, 3.6% Romanians, 2.2% Estonians, 1.8% Finns, 1.6% Siberians, 1.5% Lithuanians, and 1.4% others. 73.5% of the population adhered to Orthodox Christianity, 12% to Catholicism, 8.3% to Protestantism, 4.5% Sunni Muslim, and 1.6% animist. The population makeup was a result of immigration of Ukrainian farmers to the fertile Petropavlovsk Province, which had yet to be settled by immigrants from the west. Many people from the western regions of the empire came east to settle new farms, and 99.7% of the inhabitants of the province were farmers. The region was predominantly conservative, with 98.2% supporting the Slavophiles.